the scourge of human trafficking is one of the biggest crises of our time. 25 million around the world are being pushed into firelessed labor or sex trade against their will. generating $150 billion every year. a lot of that activity taking place right here at home in the u.s. we see human trafficking across all 50 states and really it can happen in any of the 50 states. last year in 2021 the national trafficking hotline had over 50,000 calls into the hotline and more than 16,000 of those were likely survivors of human trafficking. bill: eric shawn is on this story more on how it can happen and what is being done to put an end to it. good morning. good morning. one of the heartbreaking tolls of the migrant crisis is human trafficking. the product moved by those cartels are people. trafficking for labor or commercial sex work is a booming business in the southern border. the feds say trafficking has been lucrative for the mexican base trans national criminal organization
And difficult for the district and people working on the lights to figure out who to contact. 17 months later the lights are still on and her story has gone viral across the country. the international and even saturday night live poked fun at the digital debacle. students are doing fine. classroom hamster has gone insane. causing deep divisions in the city with the software snafu it is costing taxpayers thousands of dollars a month. this was supposed to be a cost saving environmentally friendly l.e.d. system that made it so human beings didn t have to turn on and off the switch. absolutely. as you know, sometimes technology works to our advantage and sometimes it doesn t. this is unfortunately one of the situations where technology failed us. the member of the local school committee and has been fielding complaints for months. luckily the school is now in touch with the lighting company currently owned by cooper
Bad revelations for this election review. that taxpayers are paying for in wisconsin. one, this supposedly objective fair minded review of the 2020 election result is apparently sharing an office with a law firm that has been at the fore front of trying to overturn the election results in wisconsin and beyond. but perhaps more importantly in terms of whether these efforts are sustainable, there is new divisions cropping up within the ranks of wisconsin republicans who have been pushing the stuff. and getting taxpayer money to get it paid for. newly-record shows that the audits build wisconsin taxpayers thousands of dollars, not just to talk to those cracked part guys we mentioned earlier. but to pay for a trip to arizona. so that they could observe the crazy pants cyber ninjas audit there. to learn how to import cyber ninjas circuits to wisconsin to. the problem is that republicans in the state legislature had
Wisconsin audit team show that the audit billed wisconsin taxpayers thousands of dollars, not just to talk to those crack pot guys i mentioned earlier, but also to pay for the costs of a trip to arizona so the wisconsin auditors could observe the crazy pants cyber ninjas republican audit there. to learn how to import that cyber ninjas circus to wisconsin too. the problem is that republicans in the state legislature had promised taxpayers they wouldn t have to pay for any trips like that when they put taxpayers on the hook to pay for this audit. they said the if guy they hired to do this election review wanted to travel around the country, he would have to pay for it himself. he didn t pay for it himself. the records have come out showing in fact the audit team billed taxpayers for the trip to go to the cyberninjas thing in arizona. now the republicans in the state legislature are demanding the money back. quote, we re in the process of recovering those costs.
Election review that taxpayers are paying for in wisconsin. one, this supposedly objective fair-minded review of the 2020 election results is apparently sharing an office with a law firm that has been at the forefront of trying to overturn the election results in wisconsin and beyond. but perhaps more importantly in terms of whether or not these efforts are sustainable, there s new divisions cropping up within the ranks of wisconsin republicans who have been pushing this stuff and getting taxpayer money lined up to pay for it. newly released reports from the wisconsin audit team show that the audit billed wisconsin taxpayers thousands of dollars, not just to talk to those crack pot guys i mentioned earlier, but also to pay for the costs of a trip to arizona so the wisconsin auditors could observe the crazy pants cyber ninjas republican audit there. to learn how to import that cyber ninjas circus to wisconsin too. the problem is that republicans in the state legislature had promised tax